'Wilfred': Bone-Dry Humor in a Warm and Wicked Cartoon Universe
The Aussie Wilfred fleshes out its sitcom universe with impressive worldbuilding and genuine heart amongst the weed smoke and scatological humor.
11 Jun 2013
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An Impressive Group of Artists Attempt to Explain our Essential Bond With the Beat
Even the most eloquent speakers struggle to truly describe their unending passion for music.
09 May 2010
The Ice Storm: America Out in the Cold
Ang Lee captures the '70s on film the way Rick Moody captures the era in the book The Ice Storm. It's the midst of the sexual revolution, the Watergate scandal is erupting, and the country's social consciousness is changing.
27 Jan 2010
The Ice Storm
The general fuzzed-out sense of malaise that Lee is able to tap into while exploring the Nixon-era sexual revolution (and repression and adventure), creates a point of view that both ruthlessly observes and empathizes with these alien suburbanites.
03 Apr 2008
Part 5: The Return of the Auteur
That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.
21 Jun 2007
Kids' DVDs: June 2007
Given that babies and young children love nothing more than repetition, repetition, and... um.... repetition, I can't understand why even the pointiest of heads would think children between the ages of six months and three years could possible need 23 different Baby Einstein DVDs.
05 Jun 2007
Bobby (2006)
As reporter Warren Wilson remembers, "That would have been less of an impact on me, had I been shot [as he nearly was], than Kennedy being killed, stopped, in a moment in America's history, when we needed him and his advocacy more than ever before."
15 Apr 2007
Happy Feet (2006)
The penguins learn to refine their engrained vocal skills not in the interest of spiritual uplift or any such, but, basically, to get laid.
Mike Ward
Film
20 Nov 2006
Bobby (2006)
With Kennedy serving as a symbol for what might have been, Bobby illustrates the problems he identifies.
16 Nov 2006
Sin City (2005)
Like the guys, the girls are undone by their reliance on conventional male power signs.
Cynthia Fuchs
Reviews
15 Aug 2005
Sin City (2005)
Distraught, ornery, self-critical, these heroes are certainly more "anti" types than straight-ahead.
Cynthia Fuchs
Film
31 Mar 2005
Deep Impact: Special Collector's Edition (1998)
Mimi Leder's Deep Impact is both less and more than a science fiction-styled disaster melodrama.
Cynthia Fuchs
Reviews
04 Oct 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
At once abstract and heartfelt, sincere and weirdly charming, the film unhinges conventions of linear narrative along with romantic comedy.
Cynthia Fuchs
Film
17 Mar 2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
No in-betweeners in this reductive view of the world: characters and choices are good or evil.
Cynthia Fuchs
Film
17 Dec 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
It's useful to remember that, offscreen, both good and bad tend to be tricksy.
Cynthia Fuchs
Film
18 Dec 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
What is potentially most urgent about 'The Fellowship of the Ring' is how it reflects the tenor of our time.
Todd R. Ramlow
Film
18 Dec 2001
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